A cyber attack is a malicious attack conducted by cybercriminals against a single or multiple computers, networks, or infrastructure with the intention of disabling/destroying the target computers, stealing/exposing data, gaining unauthorized administrative access, or using the targeted computer as a launch point for other attacks.
Cybercriminals attack through deploying several methods including malware/ransomware/spyware dropping, phishing campaigns, Denial of Service attacks, zero-day exploits, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, Cryptojacking, SQL injection, and DNS tunneling.
Cybercriminals, individuals or teams, have various motives for committing attacks; the most relevant ones include financial gain, theft of intellectual property, making a political statement, gaining fame, and revenge.
A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which a malicious actor aims to render a computer or other device unavailable to its intended users by interrupting the device’s normal functioning. DoS attacks typically function by overwhelming or flooding a targeted machine with requests until normal traffic is unable to be processed,…
The term ‘hacking’ and ‘hacker’ first originated in the 1960s at MIT. Nowadays, the word hacker is associated negatively and mostly refers to thieves and cybercriminals. There is no official definition of a hacker, rather a vague idea among the masses. Originally, society viewed hackers as a clever or expert programmer whose sole purpose was…
Popular services, programs, and organizations have always been a target of cyber-attacks to exploit the vulnerabilities in the service, steal users’ information, steal sensitive corporate information, or compromise the infrastructure. We have gathered the major cyber news over the past week in one post. TikTok fails to fulfill Children’s Privacy agreement The popular video-sharing app…
Popular services, programs, and organizations have always been a target of cyber attacks to exploit the vulnerabilities in the service, steal users’ information, steal sensitive corporate information, or compromise the infrastructure. We have gathered the major cyber news over the past week including Cerberus RAT, WordPress plugins vulnerabilities, Cisco Webex phishing emails, Cisco update, and…
Researchers discovered a new phishing campaign targeting Skype users and stealing their passwords. With the COVID-19 pandemic going on, people are now urged to keep their communications via online applications resulting in a surge in popularity of video chatting apps such as Zoom, Skype and Webex. Skype users are being the target of a Skype…
Cybercriminals have stolen more than $25 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Uniswap exchange and the Lendf.me lending platform. Experts are currently investigating the attack; they suspect that the same hacker(s) could have used the exploit posted on GitHub to hack the two platforms; thus, the two attacks could be linked. The two attacks are…
An ongoing phishing campaign is sending out fake security warning emails to Cisco Webex users urging them to update their Desktop app. The threat actors use an identical Cisco Webex login page to steal users’ credentials. With the COVID-19 pandemic going on, video conferencing applications such as Cisco Webex and Zoom have immensely become popular…
For nearly a decade now, fingerprint authentication has been a quicker and easier alternative for password security for smartphones and laptops. The early forms of fingerprint authentication were quickly bypassed; nevertheless, ever since the debut of Apple’s TouchID in the iPhone 5 seven years ago, the technology has become more advanced. However, researchers are now…
For the past few months, an organized attack campaign is targeting misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports to spread the Kinsing malware which is designed for cryptomining. The Kinsing malware is a Linux-based malware that contains a cryptominer that spreads through containers with the purpose of mining the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. According to Gal Singer, cybersecurity…
The Chinese state-sponsored group APT41 has targeted more than 75 organizations worldwide targeting security flaws in Citrix, Cisco, and Zoho appliances and devices. The APT41 group has been active since at least 2012 and is known for espionage, cybercrime, and surveillance operations against a large array of industries, as well as individuals. According to FireEye,…